Category: Global Warming

Lies, Damned Lies and Science: When Scientific Research is Actually Scientific Sham

National Policy Analysis #394 /
In his autobiography, Mark Twain famously - and probably wrongly - attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the now celebrated quote, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics."1 The year was 1906, and the American public's appetite for ...
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League of Conservation Voters Gets It Wrong on Bush Record, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) has released a report claiming President Bush deserves a grade of "D-" for his handling of environmental issues during his first years in office. In arriving at this grade, LCV president, Deb Callahan, ...
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Senator John Kerry’s Energy Plan Disagrees with Facts and Himself, by Tom Randall

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BACKGROUND: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) delivered a rambling presentation of his "energy plan" on January 22, in which he grossly misrepresented facts and contradicted himself. In doing so, he has aligned himself with the extreme left-wing "environmentalists" of his party ...
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Antarctica Cooling Despite Supposed Global Warming, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Nature magazine online reports January 14 that studies show temperatures on the continent of Antarctica have been falling 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since the mid-l980s. This disputes earlier claims that temperatures were rising in Antarctica, but earlier readings ...
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Enron and the Environmental Movement: Global Warming Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows

National Policy Analysis #384 /
With a payoff worth tens of billions of dollars at stake, Enron Corporation laid out millions in campaign contributions in the 1990s apparently in part to persuade the Clinton Administration and the U.S. Senate to support the Kyoto global warming ...
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Senate Democrats’ Energy Bill Promotes Global Warming Theory, by Gretchen Randall

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BACKGROUND: Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), joined by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), recently introduced an energy bill (S.1766, "The Energy Policy Act of 2002") which includes a number of claims on global warming. Below are our responses, using scientific ...
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Global Warming: Latest National Academies of Science Study Poorly Reported

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BACKGROUND: Both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported on December 12, 2001 that a soon-to-be-released study by the National Academies' National Research Council will claim man-made carbon dioxide increases the chance for sudden, dramatic increase in the ...
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A Global Warming Primer, by Gerald E. Marsh

National Policy Analysis #361 /
Please see the pdf version of this paper at https://nationalcenter.org/NPA361.pdf. Introduction The purpose of this primer is to help the reader determine whether our understanding of the Earth’s climate is adequate to predict the long term effects of carbon dioxide released ...
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Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly Harm Minorities and the Poor, by Rep. John Peterson (R-PA)

National Policy Analysis #357 /
While the world continues to ask if global warming is occurring and, if so, if human beings contribute to it, most Americans have overlooked the effect that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would have on minorities and the poor. Let's ...
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Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly Harm Minorities and the Poor, by U.S. Rep. John Peterson (R-PA)

Project 21 Commentary /
While the world continues to ask if global warming is occurring and, if so, if human beings contribute to it, most Americans have overlooked the effect that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would have on minorities and the poor. Let's ...
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